Domination relies on coercion while leadership wins consent and subordinate interests.

Evidence

Hegemony is that state of “total social au thority” which, at certain specific conjunctures, a specific class alliance wins, by a combination of “coercion” and “consent,” over the whole social formation, and its dominated classes: not only at the economic level, but also at the level of political and ideological leadership, in civil, intellectual, and moral life as well as at the material level: and over the terrain of civil society as well as in and through the condensed relations of the state. This “authority and leadership” is, for Gramsci, not a given a priori but a specific historical “moment”—one of unusual social authority. It represents the product of a certain mastery of the class struggle, certainly, but it is still subject to the class struggle and the “relations of social forces” in society, of which its “unstable equilibrium” is only one, provisional, outcome or result. Hegemony is a state of play in the class struggle which has, therefore, to be continually worked on and reconstructed in order to be maintained, and which remains a contradictory conjuncture. The important point, for Gramsci, is that, under hegemonic conditions, the organization of consent (by the dominated classes to the “leadership” of the dominant class alliance) takes precedence (though it does not obliterate) the exercise of domination through coercion. In such conditions, the class struggle tends to assume the form, not of a “frontal assault” on the bastions of the state (“war of maneuver”) but of a more protracted, strategic, and tactical struggle, exploiting and working on a number of different contradictions (Gramsci’s “war of position”). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person; Domination operates through consent won by leadership, not force alone; Domination seeks control while leadership concords interests with other groups (+12 more)

Related

• Domination operates through consent won by leadership, not force alone (similarity 0.94)
• Hegemony is rule achieved through consent rather than coercion (similarity 0.93)
• Hegemony runs on consent backed by a standby coercive apparatus (similarity 0.92)
• Hegemony combines coercion with actively won consent, with consent in the lead (similarity 0.91)
• Under hegemony, organized consent displaces direct coercion as the main instrument (similarity 0.91)
• Hegemony requires economic leadership, not just compromise concessions (similarity 0.91)
• Hegemony works by winning consent backed by coercion, not by force alone. (similarity 0.90)
• Hegemony is a precarious, ever-rebuilt dominance won mainly through consent plus coercion. (similarity 0.90)
• Hegemony is coercion combined with consent, won and perpetually reconstructed through class struggle. (similarity 0.90)
• Domination without leadership constitutes dictatorship without hegemony (similarity 0.89)
• Domination via coercion alone has limited reach, while leadership requires winning consent. (similarity 0.88)
• Durable domination requires both state force and internalized consent (similarity 0.88)
• All state powers are organs of hegemony in varying degrees (similarity 0.87)
• Hegemony via consent, not domination, gives Orientalism its durability and strength (similarity 0.86)
• Effective revolutionary parties unite force with consent dialectically (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Hegemony is rule achieved through consent rather than coercion #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626
• Domination operates through consent won by leadership, not force alone #corroborates (0.82)
• Domination seeks control while leadership concords interests with other groups #corroborates (0.80)
• The State is domination plus the active consent of the ruled #corroborates (0.78)
• Social control includes winning consent, not just coercive punishment #corroborates (0.75)
• Hegemony combines coercion with actively won consent, with consent in the lead #expands (0.72)
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests #expands (0.72)
• Hegemony runs on consent backed by a standby coercive apparatus #qualifies (0.72)
• Under hegemony, organized consent displaces direct coercion as the main instrument #qualifies (0.72)
• Coercive government power depends on voluntary cooperation from many #expands (0.70)
• Hegemony works by winning consent backed by coercion, not by force alone. #expands (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 905